Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>The Royalty of Oakwood County is a work of fiction composed of one hundred and twenty three, one-to-two page chapters of prose vignettes, fictional interviews, and fictional television episode dialogue transcriptions. The narrative focus is on the complicated relationships of a late teenage, female protagonist named Mercy Forrester. Through the layered construction of the narrative framework, Mercy navigates her feelings regarding her dying father, Ezra Forrester, better known as drag queen and reality television star Lady Ezra Foxxx, her home of Oakwood County, and notions of love, celebrity, fame, death, and dying.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Year
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Shinkle, Katie Jean
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Selah Saterstrom
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- <p>Copyright is held by the author. This work may only be accessed by members of the University of Denver community. The work is provided by permission of the author for individual research purposes only and may not be further copied or distributed. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.</p>
- Language dc:language
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://digitalcommons.du.edu/restrictedetd/97
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:digitalcommons.du.edu:restrictedetd-1086